Sabah teacher crowned nation’s best

KUALA LUMPUR: A chemistry teacher from Sabah is the winner of the inaugural Malaysia Teacher Prize, which comes with a RM50,000 award.

Anuthra Sirisena (pic), of SMJK Chung Hwa, Tenom, integrates technology and gamification in her classroom, and has contributed to her school consistently being in the top 10 schools for SPM chemistry in Sabah. Outside of the classroom, she is the co-founder of Tenom Innovation Centre (TIC), a makerspace which has trained over 2,000 teachers and students from rural schools in robotics and coding.